Tool for removing seals.



J. J. PERRALL & E. MAOKAY.

TOOL FOR REMOVING SEALS. APPLICATION FILED APR.11, 1911.

1,029,578, Patented June 11, 1912.

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JOHN J. FERRALL AND EDMUND MACKAY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TOOL FOR REMOVING SEALS.

moving seals, for securing lids or covers of cans and other receptacles, and the same has for its object to provide a simple, ellicient and reliable device for easily and con-- veniently removing such seals.

Further, said invention has for its object more particularly to provide a tool for removing box seals of the character shown and described in United States Letters Patent No. 940,242, dated November 16, 1909, granted to us for improvements in box seals.

Further, said invention has for its object to provide a tool adapted to engage the head or projecting member of a box seal, to accomplish the removal thereof from its securing member, and then hold said head in position within said tool after the same has been detached from its securing means.

To the attainment of the aforesaid objects and ends, our invention consists in the novel details of construction, and in the combination, connection and arrangement of parts, hereinafter more fully described, and then pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, wherein like nu merals of reference indicate like parts, Figure 1 is a top view showing one form of tool for removing seals, constructed according to, and embodying our said invention; Fig. 2 is a side view thereof; Fig. 8 is a view showing the manner of using the tool for the purpose of removing a seal from a box, or analogous receptacle; Fig. 4 is a top view showing the tool with the head of a seal in position therein after the same has been removed from a receptacle; Fig. 5 is a face view of a seal showing the same separated from its attaching member whereby the cover of the receptacle is secured to the body portion thereof; and Fig. 6 is a similar view of a seal after the same has been severed from its attaching member to permit of access to the interior of a receptacle.

In said drawings 10 designates the tool Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 11, 1911.

Patented June 11, 1912.

Serial N 0. 620,403.

as a whole comprising a handle 11 having a contracted shank 12, terminating at one end in a rounded portion 13, and at its other end in an enlarged head 14. The head 14 terminates in three fiat tines or prongs 15, 15, 15*, which. are arranged closely together and parallel with the longitudinal axis of the tool. The intermediate tine 15 projects from the handle 11 as a prolongation thereof and in line therewith.

16 denotes a substantially Y-shaped relnforclng l'llO which is struck up from the tool and has its single end arranged in the tine 15 and its bifurcated end terminating at about the junction of the head 14 with the shank 12, of the handle 11.

17 denotes a reinforcing rib struck up from the handle 11 which is of substantially the same outline as the adjacent portions of the handle 11, and has its lower end terminatmg intermediate the bifurcated ends of the Y-shaped reinforcing rib 1G.

The outer tines 15, 15 extend downward and forward from the head 14, and have their ends arranged parallel with, but in a horizontal plane below, the intermediate rib 15. The said tines 15, 15 and 15 are arranged in such manner relatively to each other that the same will receive and hold a seal head 18 intermediate of the same, while the shank or attaching member 19 will be accommodated intermediate of the end tines 15, 15, and below the intermediate tine 15.

To remove a seal it merely becomes necessary to cause the tines 15 and 15, 15 to engage a head 18, as shown at Fig. 3, and then, using the tool as a lever, raise the opposite end of the handle 11. By this action, the lower edge of the head 18 will be raised while its upper edge will be forced against the lid 20' of the can 21, and the frangible member 22 of the head 18 broken. Thereupon the attaching member 19 will fall backwardly within the tubular socket 28 in the can 21 and permit of the lid 20 being opened.

It will be observed that owing to the novel arrangement of the tines and the reinforcing thereof we are enabled to produce at small cost a simple, strong and eflicient device by means of which the seals may be readily and conveniently removed.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A tool of the character described, com

prising a handle, a head at one end thereof, a plurality of parallel longitudinal tines ex tending from said head, a reinforcement for one of said tines arranged, partly upon said tine and partly upon said head, and the outer of said tines extending downwardly and forwardly parallel with, but below, said intermediate reinforced tine, substantially as specified.

2. A tool of the character-described,con1-"' prising a handle, a head at one end thereof, a plurality of parallel longitudinal tines extending from said head, a reinforcement struck up from one of said tines and arranged partly upon said tine and partly upon said head and having its inner end bifurcated; and the tines arranged at the sides of said reinforced tine extending downwardly and forwardly parallel with, but below said reinforced tine, and a longitudinal reinforcement struck up from said handle portion having its lower end disposed in termediate the bifurcated end of the rein forcement first named, substantially as specified.

Signed at the city of New York, in the county and StateofNeW' York, this 28th day of March, nineteen hundred and eleven.

JOHN J. FERRALL. EDMUND MAGKAY.

Witnesses CONRAD A. DIETERIGI-I, ROY E. ToMLINsoN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by-addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

